[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
You rock!!!!!

I deleted my old maps.apk and searched but found no maps based .dex or .odex so then I looked through the packages.xml and deleted the following..

<item name="com.google.android.apps.maps.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" package="com.google.android.apps.maps" protection="2" />

</package>
<package name="com.google.android.apps.maps" codePath="/system/app/Maps.apk" nativeLibraryPath="/data/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/lib" flags="1" ft="11b7e237e00" it="11b7e237e00" ut="11b7e237e00" version="601011002" sharedUserId="10063">
<sigs count="1">
<cert index="34" key="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" />
</sigs>
<enabled-components>
<item name="com.google.android.maps.driveabout.app.DestinationActivity" />
</enabled-components>

</perms>
</shared-user>
<shared-user name="com.google.android.apps.maps" userId="10063">
<sigs count="1">
<cert index="25" />
</sigs>

Basically that was every reference I found to google maps.

Then I used system explorer to copy your newest file to my /system/app folder and rebooted.

VOILA!!! I have your latest maps installed and with navigation that opens on its own and everything.

Now, I didn't bother testing if just putting the new file in /system/apps would have been enough without the mods to the packages.xml but in any case I think your suggestion about the packages.xml is what solved my issues.

Thank you so much for the help in trouble shooting this as well as your work on this latest mod.

If anyone wants me to package this into a cwn update.zip just let me know.

EDIT::

since I did backup my packages.xml I will go back and see if the edits made the difference or not

EDIT2:

Verified that running the unmodded packages.xml I cannot install the latest .apk you posted... This conforms to me that the mds to the .xml are what fixed my problem. THANK YOU SO MUCH for figuring that out.